Making an Icon

WantoN · 11 Jan 2019 at 15:30

I'm trying to make an Icon for my Dac/Amp as the audio source under the 'sounds>playback' settings.

I've taken a picture, removed the background and touched it up to the best of my meager abilities in GIMP, and added a small drop shadow. When I try to use online converters, the transparency is not retained, and I end up with a black or white background. (as has happened with the image hosting site too!)

Can anyone advise how I can take my image, and make it into a windows icon (.ico) without losing the transparency?

If you need the original image to offer advise, let me know.

planty · 11 Jan 2019 at 16:55

Have you tried https://icoconvert.com/
I just tried that one now and it worked ok for me.

WantoN · 11 Jan 2019 at 18:40

planty said:
Have you tried https://icoconvert.com/
I just tried that one now and it worked ok for me.

That’s exactly the one I used. I exported the image as a .png with a transparent background, but when it was converted, the background was black.

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong?

I took the picture on my phone and edited in gimp (which only does RGB).

Randomface74 · 11 Jan 2019 at 18:48

@WantoN http://icoconvert.com/files/downloa...Y755QYFqLnMdGf/klx/canary_icon_2_yb6_icon.ico

WantoN · 11 Jan 2019 at 18:51

billysielu said:
@WantoN http://icoconvert.com/files/downloa...Y755QYFqLnMdGf/klx/canary_icon_2_yb6_icon.ico

Really appreciate that man, thanks. I’ll download it when I get back to my pc. Any idea why mine didn’t work?

Randomface74 · 11 Jan 2019 at 18:52

dunno, I saved your image, opened it in Paint.Net to lasso the black into transparent, saved it, uploaded it to that site, pressed the save ico button, which gave me a link, which is what I gave you.

WantoN · 11 Jan 2019 at 21:06

billysielu said:
dunno, I saved your image, opened it in Paint.Net to lasso the black into transparent, saved it, uploaded it to that site, pressed the save ico button, which gave me a link, which is what I gave you.

Thanks man, appreciate the effort.

That’s exactly what I did, using the original image and gimp (the black background was from the image host, which resized it too). I’ll try it again.

planty · 11 Jan 2019 at 23:35

billysielu said:
dunno, I saved your image, opened it in Paint.Net to lasso the black into transparent, saved it, uploaded it to that site, pressed the save ico button, which gave me a link, which is what I gave you.

Exactly what I did. It was a bit rough and ready which was why I didn't upload it.
Paint.net wins